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Adobe Illustrator for Creative Professionals

By : Clint Balsar
Book Image

Adobe Illustrator for Creative Professionals

By: Clint Balsar

Overview of this book

Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based art tool for visual creatives. It is an industry-standard tool that helps you take a design from concept to completion, including the process of peer collaboration and client feedback. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, you’ll begin to build confidence as you master the methods of successful illustrators in the industry by exploring crucial tools and techniques of Adobe Illustrator. You’ll learn how to create objects using different tools and methods while assigning varied attributes and appearances. Throughout the book, you’ll strengthen your skills in developing structures for maintaining organization as your illustration grows. By the end of this Adobe Illustrator book, you’ll have gained the confidence you need to not only create content in the desired format and for the right audience but also build eye-catching vector art based on solid design principles.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Reviewing the Necessary Knowledge
4
Part 2 – Advanced Illustrator Methods
10
Part 3 – Real-World Applications

Summary

In this final chapter, we have reviewed Illustrator's more advanced techniques and tools for efficiency. The use of keyboard shortcuts will accelerate your workflow a great deal, and, over time, will aid you in advancing your work and getting challenging designs completed in less time.

I hope you have enjoyed learning with me. No matter what your Illustrator level was when you began reading this book, I hope I have offered some content that has taken your knowledge and/or skills past that point now. Illustrator becomes an extension of your hand as far as creativity goes so, like traditional artistic media, the longer you work with it, the stronger your skills grow. Each artist finds their own approach to using their media. So, each Illustrator artist finds their own methods for its use. I wish you the best as you continue on your journey to becoming more comfortable with this tool and allowing it to free your creative spirit.